lots of blood-sucking insects

[ilanarama]

Unless someone presents solid reasoning that convinces me otherwise (littleamerica, I'm looking at you, I guess), I will be supporting Bill Richardson for president 2008. Not that it matters, probably, considering that Colorado caucuses late enough in the primary cycle that the candidates will already have been decided by then. Sigh.

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[fabularasa.livejournal.com]

There are a couple of things that bother me about Richardson that I think make him vulnerable in the primaries -- not the least the philandering rumors. Great resume, but total lack of coattails. If I were picking for myself, I guess I'd lean toward Chris Dodd.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he's not exactly Mr. Charisma. But...he's SMART!

(and philandering, alas, seems to be a time-honored tradition in the White House...)

[mehitabelmmoss.livejournal.com]

Bit too early for me to jump in. I like aspects of most of the Dem field - and they also all have negatives. I like BR a lot, need to learn more.
Of course if Gore announces I will be in his camp, just as I was in Dean's in 2004. I like exciting and honest men with scruples.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would so vote for Gore! But I don't think he's going to run.

I wanted to vote for Dean, too, but he dropped out before our caucus.

[alembicresearch.livejournal.com]

I probably won't decide until I cast my ballot. :-)
You think its bad living in CO, caucus/primary-wise, you should
try CA! Fifty Four electorial votes (and growing rapidly),
and we get just about no say in who they pick.

I haven't heard anything about Bill R ... so I guess I'll have to read
up on him.

Anything is better than picking some MA loser again.
I'll puke if the Dems do that!

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think we need a western candidate, which is one reason I like him. Also, he is smart, he has been a congressman, a diplomat (ambassador to the UN) and Secretary of Energy, so he has a lot of experience in many facets of government. I've heard him speak, and he's good. He's very pro-environment, and he has more credibility on immigration than pretty much anyone, as a Hispanic governor of a border state.

[revbiscuit.livejournal.com]

This election process never ceases to amaze me. Quite frankly, I don't know how you have the stamina to follow it through to the end, although it has to be said they're starting with campaigning earlier and earlier here as well, these days.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

It's actually a lot of fun to get heavily involved. I live in a small town so it's relatively easy to become part of the local party machine, and that makes it a little more interesting, I think.

[revbiscuit.livejournal.com]

Yeah. You're right. I think I've just become jaded over the years because I feel so remote from it all. I can only vote in the local elections in the UK - which I do - and in the general elections (i.e. those for the deputies and senate chambers) in Italy. I've only started doing that again recently, because I can vote by post now. In the past you had to travel, which was a bit much really. Plus things move so fast over there - parties change name! For cryin' out loud - I sometimes had to wonder what I was voting for. Thank God for Repubblica on the net, that's all I can say. Never a dull moment in Italian politics ;-)

[alembicresearch.livejournal.com]

So not knowing much about the honorable Mr. R.,
why does he float your boat more than any of the
other declared or non-declared canidates?

Why does he stand out for you?

[frosch.livejournal.com]

well, you didn't ask *me*, but let me help out.

Secretary of Energy. Ambassador to the United Nations. Governor of New Mexico. He's certainly more qualified for the job than a couple of Senate newbies like Clinton and Obama, even if Hillary already knows how to order drapes for the White House.

I could get behind Edwards, or Feingold (who hasn't declared yet), but please, dear God, not Hillary.

and as far as Obama goes, the fact that he's jumping into this election rather than waiting a couple of terms in the Senate is ample confirmation that he's a shallow, publicity-seeking opportunist, as if there were any doubt after what he tried to do to Bobby Rush.

[r-becca.livejournal.com]

But John Edwards is so dreamy!!! Richardson cannot hold a candle to Edwards in the dreaminess department.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, Richardson is the anti-dreamy. Alas.

[alembicresearch.livejournal.com]

Maybe if Richardson just doesn't spend as much
time in front of the mirror as John does:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AE847UXu3Q

This is actually not the first video I've seen
of John primping and preening in front of a mirror ...
I saw one video clip once of him primping and preening
for at leas 5 minutes ... it was hilarious!

[frosch.livejournal.com]

Not that it matters, probably, considering that Colorado caucuses late enough in the primary cycle that the candidates will already have been decided by then.

Not if I can help it. The Alabama primary is going to be in March 2008, and I've been planning to go out to find the local Richardson campaign.

I know what that feels like, though, from having lived in Tennessee. I really wanted to vote for Bill Bradley in 2000, but he was long gone by the time I got to vote.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

You might try http://www.americaforrichardson.org/

Yeah, I wanted to vote for Bill Bradley in 2000, and I wanted to vote for Howard Dean in 2004, and the darn early western primary went to the huge and influential state of...Nevada. Oh, well.